Want to know what everyone is cheering about? Learn to enjoy and understand the game with the football fanatic in your life. This book is the ultimate football guide for the novice fan. You will get answers to such complex questions as:. What is that yellow line on the field and why does it keep moving?. What down is it and why do I care?. What is a T formation?Laced with hilarious and insightful anecdotes from Mark Oristano's thirty-year career as a pro football sportscaster, [i]A Sportscaster's Guide to Watching Football[/i] will turn you into a football-watching pro, or at least, let you fake it.[i]Time Out:I was in the locker room before a game, and I saw an Oilers linebacker furiously drawing on his shoes with a permanent marker. This player, like many, had his ankle tape applied over the outside of his shoes instead of inside, which obviously covered the shoe logo. And he was drawing the logo of his shoe contract on the tape.Wouldn't it be easier, I asked him, to get taped inside and not have to do the artwork?Yeah, it would, he replied, but then I'd actually have to wear their damn shoes, and I hate 'em. So I wear the brand I like and do it this way instead. [/i]

A Sportscaster's Guide to Watching Football: Decoding America's Favorite Game

Sports & Outdoors

Oristano, Mark

Football (American)

Synergy Books

Surgeon's Story: If You Can't Operate in Heels, You Can't Operate!

"If you can't operate in heels, you can't operate!" - Dr. Kristine Guleserian "This book should be a gift to any young woman considering a medical career and wondering if she could do it. " "A fantastic journey into the science of the human heart and one heroic doctor who repairs and replaces them." "From the very first page right up to the climactic ending, this book will entertain you with the real life wit, humor, and drama." Kristine Guleserian, pediatric cardiothoracic surgeon, is scrubbed in. Dr. G, as she's known, is one of only nine women in the U.S. sub-specialty board certified by the American Board of Thoracic Surgeons to do what she's about to do -- take a scalpel sharper than a dozen razors, cut through eleven-month old Claudia's skin, saw open her breastbone and spread her ribcage apart in order to repair congenital defects threatening a malformed heart the size of a walnut. It's just after 9:00 AM. Claudia will be in the OR until 2:00 PM, along with a team of talented surgeons, nurses, techs, anesthesiologists, perfusionists and others. Dr. G is in charge. What will she find when she opens the chest? How will this tiny little child hold up in surgery? You won't believe the real-life medical drama in this intense, close-up visit to the cardiac OR. Pick up your copy with just one click. What made you decide to write Surgeon's Story? I've been a volunteer at Children's Medical Center in Dallas for 20 years, and I got to know Dr. Guleserian in a very casual fashion, seeing her give a couple of lectures and things. But the more I found out about her, as both person and surgeon, the more I thought she'd be a great subject for a book. And she agreed to the project with the one proviso that it would not be in her first-person voice. What it is like to watch heart surgery? Well, if your only notion of heart surgery comes from watching MASH, you'd be disappointed. It's almost bloodless. But the most impressive thing is the incredible, complete teamwork in the OR. Surgeons, nurses, scrub techs, perfusionists, anesthesiologists, all work like a well drilled football team, or a perfectly synchronized ballet company. It's really a very beautiful thing to watch. Who are you hoping will be eager to read Surgeon's Story? Well, pretty much everybody, obviously. But beyond that, there are two core audiences. First, anybody who has ever enjoyed Chicago Hope or Gray's Anatomy, or ER, and wants to see what really goes on in those life-or-death hospital settings. And secondly, young people, especially girls, who are thinking of careers in science and would like to follow in Dr. G's shoes.

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Diseases & Physical Ailments

Authority Publishing

"If you can't operate in heels, you can't operate!" - Dr. Kristine Guleserian "This book should be a gift to any young woman considering a medical career and wondering if she could do it. " "A fantastic journey into the science of the human heart and one heroic doctor who repairs and replaces them." "From the very first page right up to the climactic ending, this book will entertain you with the real life wit, humor, and drama." Kristine Guleserian, pediatric cardiothoracic surgeon, is scrubbed in. Dr. G, as she's known, is one of only nine women in the U.S. sub-specialty board certified by the American Board of Thoracic Surgeons to do what she's about to do -- take a scalpel sharper than a dozen razors, cut through eleven-month old Claudia's skin, saw open her breastbone and spread her ribcage apart in order to repair congenital defects threatening a malformed heart the size of a walnut. It's just after 9:00 AM. Claudia will be in the OR until 2:00 PM, along with a team of talented surgeons, nurses, techs, anesthesiologists, perfusionists and others. Dr. G is in charge. What will she find when she opens the chest? How will this tiny little child hold up in surgery? You won't believe the real-life medical drama in this intense, close-up visit to the cardiac OR. Pick up your copy with just one click. What made you decide to write Surgeon's Story? I've been a volunteer at Children's Medical Center in Dallas for 20 years, and I got to know Dr. Guleserian in a very casual fashion, seeing her give a couple of lectures and things. But the more I found out about her, as both person and surgeon, the more I thought she'd be a great subject for a book. And she agreed to the project with the one proviso that it would not be in her first-person voice. What it is like to watch heart surgery? Well, if your only notion of heart surgery comes from watching MASH, you'd be disappointed. It's almost bloodless. But the most impressive thing is the incredible, complete teamwork in the OR. Surgeons, nurses, scrub techs, perfusionists, anesthesiologists, all work like a well drilled football team, or a perfectly synchronized ballet company. It's really a very beautiful thing to watch. Who are you hoping will be eager to read Surgeon's Story? Well, pretty much everybody, obviously. But beyond that, there are two core audiences. First, anybody who has ever enjoyed Chicago Hope or Gray's Anatomy, or ER, and wants to see what really goes on in those life-or-death hospital settings. And secondly, young people, especially girls, who are thinking of careers in science and would like to follow in Dr. G's shoes.

Surgeon's Story is the story of the life and career of Dr. Kristine Guleserian, a pediatric heart surgeon who operates on the walnut-sized hearts of newborn babies. One of only 9 women in the U.S. board certified in pediatric cardiothoracic surgery, Dr. G, as she's known, spent years learning her highly specialized trade.
In the book, you'll meet Andrew Madden, the teenaged boy from West Texas who, only three weeks after his heart transplant, threw out the first pitch at a World Series game for his beloved Boston Red Sox.
You'll meet two-year old Rylynn, a tough little fighter whose wait for a donor heart stretched into months in the ICU before culminating in a dramatic, night-long surgery.
And you'll meet Dr. G, and learn about her education, her training, and most of all her selfless dedication to her patients and her craft. Dr. Guleserian opens up completely about life as a female surgeon, the obstacles she had to overcome to reach her position, and the constant challenges facing surgeons who operate on the tiniest patients.
You'll also be charmed by Dr. G's incredible humor. This is, after all, a woman whose motto is, "If you can't operate in heels... you can't operate."

Surgeon's Story: Kids, Transplants, the Red Sox, and the Glass Ceiling

Biographies & Memoirs

Community & Culture

Union Square Publishing, Inc.

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A Sportscaster's Guide to Watching Football: Decoding America's Favorite Game

Surgeon's Story: If You Can't Operate in Heels, You Can't Operate!

Surgeon's Story: If You Can't Operate in Heels, You Can't Operate!

Surgeon's Story: Kids, Transplants, the Red Sox, and the Glass Ceiling